Dhaka, June 21 -- Finance Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury on Sunday said the government will overhaul its public finance architecture to fund the proposed budget for the fiscal year 2026-27 while minimising debt burden on the economy.

"We cannot keep looking towards the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Asian Development Bank (ADB). We need to restructure our own public financing," he said while speaking at the "CPD Budget Dialogue 2026" organised by the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) at a city hotel.

The minister said the government is working to develop alternative financing channels and will introduce market-based financing mechanisms for budget funding.

He noted that the gap between multilateral financing ra...